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Expert Witness #250772
This expert is Director of the Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program at a research university. This expert is an expert in automotive drivetrain technology and extensively studies, publishes and teaches on oscillation, vibration and flexure of drivetrains. This expert's primary focus is on electrical and mechanical systems including imbalance issues, and the attendant noise and vibrations that occur, specifically the dynamics and analysis of mechanical vibrations on rotating and linear devices. This expert is a member of the society of Automotive engineers (SAE) and is a registered Professional Engineer. This expert has experience as an expert witness, having testified approximately a dozen times in court, and providing upwards of twenty depositions, primarily in patent matters.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #254348
This expert serves as President and technical director of a highly respected and sought-after consultancy providing automotive research and development, data acquisition, testing, vehicle dynamics, and design engineering services to both the off-road and military vehicle industry. While the bulk of this expert's success and reputation has been built around work in off-road motorsports, designing and developing specialized off-road vehicles, this expert has taken that knowledge and experience and provided it to the military. This expert has done a lot of work on military vehicle projects. This expert worked on the design and development of a family of high mobility military vehicles. This expert has provided prototype design and build services to both Marine Corps and Army programs which required building seventeen differently configured prototype concept vehicles. Many of this expert's military projects are confidential and/or proprietary in nature. This expert is currently consulting as an Off-Road Specialist.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #218102
This expert is a Registered Professional Engineer with many years of experience in the biotechnology field. This expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering, is an ASME Fellow, and an IEEE Senior Member. This expert is also a member of ASM International (the Materials Information Society) and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). This expert has many years of consulting and expert witness experience including design, application, analysis, and failure/reliability issues for a variety of MEMs and sensor projects. This expert is very well versed in MEMs and sensor technologies and brings strong experience in electromechanical systems. At a prominent corporate research laboratory, this expert developed a unique piezoelectric sensor with integrated electronics for telephone and telecom applications. This expert has worked with haptics and MEMs applications for cell phone and game controller applications, consulted on vehicle dynamics and stability issues, and has dynamics, vibration, and damping experience for consumer electronics and other applications.
This expert has testified in both trial and depositions for patent cases and other types of litigation. This expert has authored numerous expert reports, filed 8 IPR Declarations, and testified in a patent trial with others upcoming. This expert has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department at two prestigious universities.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #252824
This expert is a professor of Aerospace Engineering and Rotorcraft Design, and a Director of a Center of Excellence in Rotorcraft Technology. This expert initiated a School of AE graduate program in Aerospace
Systems Design and started an Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory. This expert established an Integrated Product Lifecycle Engineering Laboratory. This expert has extensive expertise in the design and development of complex systems. This expert served as an aviator, engineer, manager and senior executive with the U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command. As a dynamics, vibrations and aeroelasticity engineer this expert served as the Army's expert in these areas during the design and development of all the Army's major aviation systems, the UH-60 Black Hawk, the AH-64 Apache, the C H-47D Chinook, and the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, as well as major upgrades to Army Aviation fixed wing aircraft, such as the R U-21D, and OV-1D Mohawk. In addition, this expert served as the dynamics evaluator and technical area chief on Army Aviation Major Source Selection Evaluation Boards that led to the development of these systems. This expert oversaw the airworthiness qualification efforts for all new and upgraded Army aviation systems and provided engineering support to the program managers on these systems. This expert oversaw the Command's Science and Technology program, and led the concept development of new systems.
This expert also served on a temporary assignment as the Chief Scientist for the Army's Combined Arms Center and was an active duty Army aviator and commander and Field Artillery battery commander. This expert is the author or co-author of several book chapters and more than 200 technical publications in the fields of dynamics and aeroelasticity, flight mechanics and controls, aerospace systems design, and Integrated Product and Process Development. This expert is both an AHS and an AIAA Fellow, and a member of the American Society of Engineering Educators.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #252163
This automotive systems expert has over 45 years of active involvement in automotive design, testing, and evaluation of drivetrains, suspension systems, brake systems, chassis control systems, including electronic stability control systems, vehicle handling, and vehicle stability. This expert's automotive career includes engineering, designing, and testing components for automotive manufacturers, OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers; integrating vehicles and vehicle systems; test-track and road testing of dynamic vehicle behavior; validating components and systems for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers; designing and preparing racecars; and driving racecars.
This expert has invented and developed advanced all-wheel drive systems used by leading SUV and car manufacturers. During the integration of these systems into individual vehicle platforms, this expert worked closely with development teams on vehicle dynamics integration. Following an intensive over 15-year vehicle research and development career and vehicle handling work with a broad range of U.S. and European automobile manufacturers, this expert began conducting detailed systems analyses of vehicle handling and stability issues that lead to catastrophic injury accidents. Over the last 25 years, this expert has conducted numerous detailed systems analyses of catastrophic injury crashes in accordance with established industry practices and protocols published by SAE. This expert has worked with and participated in dynamic vehicle testing for handling and safety issues with OEM and supplier engineers on many proving grounds and test tracks, testing and evaluating vehicles manufactured by many OEMs.
More specifically, this expert has worked on the development and testing of ESC, including manufacturer-specific implementations, with several automotive manufacturers and suppliers. This expert has detailed knowledge and experience with hydroplaning subroutines and ESC technology, from concept through implementation, and is capable of downloading, reading, and interpreting vehicle control system code where access is available.
This expert is currently conducting research relating to advanced automotive technology, including design and technology analysis involving design defects and alternative designs; automotive systems and components testing and scientific validation, including durability, reliability, rollover, and handling tests; automotive design, technology, vehicle dynamics, handling, and stability research and consulting; and evaluation of feasibility, performance, and potential effects of design alternatives and available technology.
This expert has over 20 years of expert witness experience, including numerous matters involving ESC, testing, reports, and testimony.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #256953
This SAE/ANSI trailer engineering expert has over 40 years of experience with a major trucking company and retired from a senior engineering services role. This expert currently serves on an industry standards committee that develops and oversees SAE Standards related to hitches, couplings, safety chains, related nomenclature, and vehicle dynamics. This expert has experience with fifth wheel and gooseneck hitch systems, primarily involving strength characteristics and component nomenclature, including safety chain strength and attachments. This expert authored user instructions for trucking equipment for many years and implemented ANSI Z535 Standards in that work.
Most of this expert's matters have involved product liability, and this expert has also testified in fraud-related matters involving brake tampering and physical evidence. This expert has significant experience with patent-related document production. This expert has testified over 50 times in deposition and trial, both as an expert witness and as a Rule 30(b)(6) witness or person most knowledgeable, and has provided expert work and testimony in several consulting matters. This expert has designed physical models and exhibits for litigation.
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This accident reconstruction expert holds a Ph.D., is a P.E., and is a Professional Engineer with over 25 years of experience in forensic engineering and accident reconstruction. This expert has investigated thousands of motor vehicle collisions, applying expertise in vehicle dynamics, crash causation, and failure analysis. This expert's expertise includes accident reconstruction and vehicle dynamics, crash causation and impact analysis, roadway design and safety systems, and failure analysis of mechanical systems.
This expert has reconstructed electric vehicle collisions and is familiar with vehicle data download and interpretation processes. This expert has extensive testimony experience in state and federal courts, providing reports, depositions, and trial testimony for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #265317
This sensor-based automation expert witness holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at a well-regarded university, with over 20 years of experience in vehicle dynamics, control, and sensor-based automation for ground vehicles. This expert holds endowed professorships and has led a nationally recognized research program in automated and intelligent transportation systems. The Ph.D. was earned from a prestigious university, with specialization in automatic control and mechatronic systems, and this expert has received multiple national awards recognizing contributions to vehicle automation research and engineering education.
This expert has extensive expertise in the integration of camera-based sensing with GPS, inertial sensors, LiDAR, radar, and onboard vehicle sensors to support automated driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Research areas include vision-based lane detection, object tracking, and vision-aided navigation, with a strong emphasis on sensor fusion and real-time implementation on instrumented vehicles operating in challenging environments. This expert has supervised numerous graduate research projects involving computer vision for autonomous vehicles, including robust lane detection using camera and IMU data, vision-assisted GPS/INS navigation, and object registration and tracking for automated platforms. The work consistently combines theoretical development with experimental validation on full-scale vehicle systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #281403
Location Calculation Expert
This expert's consulting firm provides expertise in the areas of mechanical engineering, accident reconstruction, finite element analysis (FEA), and transportation safety. This expert has a strong background in kinematic and dynamic analysis and has taught several university classes in Kinematics and Dynamics of objects. This expert also used kinematic analysis in many vehicle and motorcycle accident cases and can also create an animation video to visually represent the location of the vehicle relative to the traffic light and other surroundings immediately before and during an incident.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #291857
This forensic pathology expert is an MD who serves in a senior medical examiner role and leads a consultancy specializing in forensic pathology and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, including wound analysis.
This expert has over 25 years of experience as a forensic specialist. Much of this work has involved pedestrians struck by automobiles, including extensive experience with these types of cases.
When an individual is struck by an automobile, there can be patterned injuries from the vehicle as well as severe disfiguring injuries based on the vehicle's speed at impact. This expert has experience evaluating whether vehicle components and impact dynamics may have caused deep incised wounds and other traumatic injuries.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #293878
This forensic engineering expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with graduate degrees in engineering and experience in accident reconstruction, vehicle systems, product defects, and failure analysis.
This expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.Sc. in Engineering, and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from well-regarded engineering universities. Training includes inspection of accident scenes, passenger vehicles, and heavy vehicles for defects and accident causation, as well as imaging and analysis of Event Data Recorders, Electronic Control Modules, and vehicle brake systems.
This expert has been trained to use computer models for vehicle dynamics simulations and accident reconstructions. Experience also includes investigations involving product defects and the creation of failure analysis models to determine causation and support opinions.
To support accident reconstructions, this expert has conducted testing of industrial and consumer products and equipment involved in accidents resulting in bodily harm. This expert has provided assessments and reports regarding accident causation, product failure, and defect analysis.
This expert has inspected and tested agricultural tractors, skid steer loaders, construction equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, dump trucks, plow trucks, motorcycles, and passenger vehicles as part of forensic engineering investigations and accident reconstructions. Additional experience includes maintenance and operation of farm equipment, familiarity with agricultural implements, harvesters, and tractors, and review of data from GPS-based and vehicle-based control modules, including systems commonly referred to as black boxes. This expert is also familiar with driving systems for agricultural tractors.
Start Vehicle Dynamics Expert SearchExpert Witness #301585
This biomechanics and accident reconstruction expert holds a Ph.D., is a licensed Professional Engineer, is accredited as a traffic accident reconstructionist, and has investigated hundreds of cases involving vehicle accident reconstruction, biomechanics, occupant kinematics, injury thresholds, and premises liability. This expert's experience includes biomechanical analysis of injury mechanisms, causation analysis, injury reconstruction, fracture mechanics, and failure analysis, including using engineering analysis to determine the origin and cause of human injury.
This expert is a Walkway Auditor Certificate Holder (WACH) with experience evaluating coefficient of friction testing of walkway surfaces, and continues to conduct research and maintain current knowledge in the biomechanics and engineering fields. This expert has experience reconstructing many types of accidents, including incidents involving injuries from falls. This expert's background in biomechanics supports analysis of incident dynamics before, during, and after an event, including how an injury may have occurred, the forces involved, the geometry of a fall, and how a person may have interacted with the surrounding environment. This expert has worked on falls from heights, including falls down stairways, from ladders, and from platforms and ledges.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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